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  1. TantrumusMaximus

    Dual 144Hz Low Profile Workstation GPU needed (Not Gaming)

    HELP!! I am going bonkers trying to find a simple dual DP low profile GPU for my corp desktop at work to support 144Hz driving (2) 24" monitors. Any help is appreciated.... So far I was looking at this but it's not clear if it drives 144hz...
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    Build - $5K Budget Need Pointers

    Hello, Long time I've been away from this forum but I consider this the go-to place for opinions and respect all of your input. So with that said. As you can see in my sig that my current rig is still very playable but I can't quite resist the new tech so I am building a $5K system that I am...
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    SLI GTX 280 (Upgrading)

    Hey all, I'm currently running GTX280 SLI setup... the main game I play is Skyrim right now and loving it. My current setup does fairly well in Ultra texture settings with tweaks obviously to distance and other settings. I am running a post FFXA injector which makes lighting/shading so much...
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    GTX280 / SLI ... Is it time for an Upgrade yet?

    I have GTX280 SLI in my system and I'm still seeing pretty darn good perf in all my games at 1900x1080. If I go with a single card solution which is the one to go for? I've been AFK here for some time and feel out of touch on what's the latest greatest... and wondering if now is the time to...
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    COD MW2 Hacking/Cheating Ruining Game

    I am so disappointed. Been playing shooters since Wolfenstein 3D. I can hold my own, been in plenty of clans etc during the past 10+ years but in COD MW2 it's OUT OF CONTROL. Take a look at youtube and there are tons of video clips of aimbotters, wallhacks, etc. One sample...
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    Activision

    Why the !@#$ is every Activision game on the PC sold for $59.99 when they come out? This single point of sale greed along with their new abandonment of the PC community decision to run with that hosted matchmaking service for COD MW2 totally sent me the other direction. I'm sure this has...
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    Need some help with HDTV as PC Mon

    Well I caved and took my 26" Vizio back to Costco when they had a deal on the Vizio 32" 120Hz HDTV.... and it's truely a brilliant screen... gaming has never been better for me. Exactly what the doctor ordered! But.....The text at 1920x1080 on the desktop and in applications is FUBAR! It...
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    Another x-FI Garbage Thread

    I'm all over the place lately with PC issues.. So I'm about to tell Creative to go stick it and buy a Asus Xonar D2X sound card. I am sick of the odd random "WTF!" BSOD that comes with the X-Fi. I was using the onboard sound without problems with some cheesy low end Altec Lansing speakers...
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    Looking for Game Suggestion

    I've been in the mood for a space game like Freelancer (Not EVE please.) I seriously don't understand why that didn't end up with a sequel the game was fun as hell and had a lot of playability and the standard WASD + Mouse shooter controls were awesome... I'm hoping to find a similar action...
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    HELP NEEDED - P6T Updated to 707 BIOS

    Hello, I updated my ASUS P6T from 202 > 707 BIOS and now Vista and Win7 both BSOD immediately upon the progress bar displaying. I'm stumped. The bluescreen happens so fast I can't see what message it is.... just flash of the bsod and black screen rebooting again. Tried the following...
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    ATI Eyefinity on 5870

    I'm really curious about how good this really feature really is.... what I'm reading is that it blows away the Matrox solution. I've posted here before about wanting the 3 monitor setup with the Matrox Triplehead2go but that never came to be due to the fact I couldn't justify the cash for the...
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    Gamestop's Treatment of PC Gamers

    How many of you have noticed declining treatment of PC games at your local Gamestop? I started noticing the PC games getting shoved to the side and now they barely even display them at all. And the ones they do display are very poor condition ripped up boxes etc. Ask a clerk and they are...
  13. TantrumusMaximus

    Multi Monitor Gaming - Spanned Desktops

    Wondering about gaming with spanned resolutions across monitors. If you use my sig system .... what would I need without replacing anything but the monitor I have or adding to it? My gut tells me 3 24" res would be too much for any video card combination (save 3 GTX 260's on a tri sli board...
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    Mass Effect

    Did you like it? Was it graphically rich? Steam has it $19.99 thinkin on jumping on it. Looking for a good spacefaring game.
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    TUTORIAL: How to Leverage a Ramdisk in Gaming

    I've decided to type up this rather lengthy tutorial since it benefitted me with amazing real game performance results. I hope this tutorial helps other people wishing for some better performance out of their games. It is not meant to increase FPS, this is meant to help with the disk...
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    Nvidia RAID BIOS will not post with added Controller

    I have a system with a EVGA 650i Ultra... Problem: nVidia integrated RAID will not post!!! BIOS skips it. Root Cause: Added a Highpoint 2300 RAID Controller (PCI-E 1x) How the heck can I get the BIOS to post the nvidia RAID bios THEN the Highpoint????? The OS on this particular...
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    Looking for a good X58 BIOS / OC Guide

    Can anyone point me to a good guide that explains the new terminoligy in the X58 BIOS? I've been running my i7/P6T at 4GHz however am eager to tweak further however I need to get a better handle at the advanced options. Any good recommended guides? The ones I'm finding are just not...
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    Is it Time to get an i7

    Looking for some advice from gurus: Using my sig system as a baseline.... Could my CPU be a major bottleneck for my SLI setup? Would going to i7 platform be MUCH better platform for these 2 boards? I'm not having any issues but I think that the scaling of the SLI isn't nearly as...
  19. TantrumusMaximus

    Need Software Recommendation for monitoring Temps.

    I just got a EVGA 750i SLI FTW and a E8400 @ 4005MHz running smooth however I want to monitor my temps. I'm running Vista 64 and can't seem to find any good way to watch my temps via s/w. Any suggestions?
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    Vista 64 "Program has stopped working" Message

    Just installed a fresh copy of Vista 64 on new EVGA 750i FTW mobo, E8400 System runs great however every time I quit an app I get a message "The program has stopped working" etc etc.... Close Vent Close Fallout 3 Close Warhammer Online Close Internet Explorer Same thing... Fully...
  21. TantrumusMaximus

    i7 or C2Q for Warhammer Online

    I've been playing Warhammer Online since release and now that I'm in the current end-game battles I'm really concerned about performance. If anyone's played this game it appears VERY CPU limited. I've seen my buddy with his DDR3/Q9400/ GTX 280 still get a slugfest in large battles. I...
  22. TantrumusMaximus

    SLI 8800GTX : Not sure if I'm getting the full "Bling"

    Got a good price on a second 8800GTX so figured why not it's going to wife as I move to i7 very soon. I'm not too cozy with the 3Dmark06 scores I'm getting. I only have the demo version of the benchmark so these are stock setting results: 14K 3DMark06 Score? System: EVGA 680i E6600 @...
  23. TantrumusMaximus

    Lucid Hydra 100

    When Anandtech posted the article covering the future Lucid Hydra 100 chip I about wet my pants with excitement. The promise of linear scaling and testing that backed it up just rocked my socks. I'm just suprised that since that article and the other articles I've found from other sites...
  24. TantrumusMaximus

    Coolermaster HAF-932

    I just picked up 2 at Microcenter today for my 2 systems (wife and I), they were cheaper than the newegg price. I'm very suprised after searching this forum to see no mention of this awesome case.... (search busted maybe?) It has great cable management and unequaled airflow vs. noise levels...
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    A Feature I'd wish to see in Cases

    It's been forever since I've posted but I find I go in a cycle of interest as I'm about to spend $$$. Then I am about to and I'm all over this forum for a while LOL. Now I'm looking for a case for my big upgrade. My question to all the fellow enthusiasts around here.... CASES.... I'm...
  26. TantrumusMaximus

    Quake 4 on HDTV Issue

    Hopefully some gurus here can help me out. I have a XP Media Center 2005 R2 that I recently started to game on as well. Originally I had an X1900XTX before yesterday in the system. Well it was starting to show age on some of the games so I put my main PC's board in.. 8800GTX. Of...
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    Dell AMD 3800+ X2 /w E207WFP LCD 20" $599

    http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/...=us&l=en&oc=DDDEBH3&cs=19&kc=9&X=9&Y=6 Hot or not you decide. I bought a similar setup last year with the 20", not sure if the 20" are as hot as they were last year but for $599 this is pretty sharp.
  28. TantrumusMaximus

    H2O Question - Radiator location: TJ09 Case

    After a lot of debate I've come to grips that W/C is the way to go and I'm ready to take the plunge.... now with that out of the way. I recently got a Silverstone TJ09 I'm thinking of getting this kit: Swiftech H2O-220 Apex Ultra http://www.xoxide.com/swiftech-h2o-apex-ultra-extreme.html...
  29. TantrumusMaximus

    Coolit Freezone & Eliminator

    I'm really suprised I can't find a single thread on these 2 products here? Anyone own one? I personally am interested in the Eliminator (which is a later lesser revision of the Freezone which is a little more powerful and more $) unit. I haven't seen one bad review on these self-contained...
  30. TantrumusMaximus

    Antec 900 or Gigabyte Aurora 3D 570

    So I just got all the following parts and am planning on getting a 8800GTX board in April... These are the 2 cases I am debating: Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 (Lengthened for 8800GTX type cards): Sales Page: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=241618 A Review w/ Pics...
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    Crossfire Question

    I currently own a Powercolor X1900XTX (love it) and am considering upgrading to a core 2 duo 975x chipset motherboard with an E6600. What board would I need to buy to run crossfire? I am seeing X1950XTX Crossfire boards but not X1900XTX Crossfire Edition boards.... To Crossfire...
  32. TantrumusMaximus

    Wireless Stereo Headphones W/Mic

    I've grown very sick of tangling wires around my chair and my kids crawlin on my lap off my lap back on my lap while trying to play games and I want to buy some wireless headphones with a mic however the closest thing I found was that X2 wireless headphones for X-Box 360... OR Bluetooth...
  33. TantrumusMaximus

    Regarding Dell XPS410 Review

    Around beginning of summer there was that super Dell small business deal (The 20" 2007 LCD and 5150 Dimension for $599) that I'm sure a lot of folks that frequent this board remember.... well I bit and put a nice video card in that system and man was I and still am so happy I did it. I...
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    CM Stacker 830 Second Opinion.

    I bought the highly rated CM Stacker 830 a couple months back and praised it in my review here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=37&threadid=1809297&enterthread=y However after using it for a couple months now I'm just SICK of it. -The doors unlike other reviews do NOT go...
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    Nvidia Products GS & GT

    I'm purchasing yet another Dell system for my wife an XPS 600 and it is bundled with a "7900 GS." Is the GS a crippled "GT" flavored board or vise versa????
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    HELP!!! Dell 5150 Video Upgrade Problem

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. I just got one of those Dell deals: 5150 + 20" for $599 While the setup was painless out of the box... I wanted to use my spare Geforce 6800GT PCI-E board. I realized when I orded the system and from what I read that I would need a new PS so by...
  37. TantrumusMaximus

    New Dell 5150 and 6800gt

    I just recently bought a 5150 + 20" LCD deal from Dell that floated around the Hot Deals forum here and I upgraded the power supply as suggested to a OCZ 450W that fit in the unit and everytime I fire up World of Warcraft within 5 minutes I lose video signal. The monitor led goes amber... and...
  38. TantrumusMaximus

    THIS BLOWS - Dell Deals

    What a TOTAL bummer! I didn't pull the trigger yesterday on the Logitech z5500 THX set because I was more eager to leave work and go home.... and sure enough now it's like $100 more than yesterday. Along with all the other speakers that were far less $ yesterday. :(
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    Video Switcher 2 monitor sharing

    I have a Sony CPD-G520 21" CRT which is a great monitor but recently purchased a 2405FPW from Dell... while I love this monitor it just does NOT cut it for FPS games when I play Multiplayer. I recently found I played much better and got many more frags when using the CRT. So with that in...
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    Help me decide on ATI or nVidia (POLL)

    I recently bought a Dell 2405FPW and as folks here advised me I am realizing the SLI 6800gt setup isn't quite cutting it on the latest games such as Call of Duty 2 and Oblivion, they are just too sluggy at the native res so I am pushed to upgrade but to WHAT is the question... I've read many...